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18 Discipline your children while there is still hope of influencing their future,
    so as not to play a part in their destruction.
19 A hot-tempered man will pay a penalty;
    if you bail him out, it will not be the last time; the cycle will repeat.
20 Heed counsel, act on instruction,
    and you will become wise later in life.

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18 (A)Chasten your son while there is hope,
And do not set your heart [a]on his destruction.

19 A man of great wrath will suffer punishment;
For if you rescue him, you will have to do it again.

20 Listen to counsel and receive instruction,
That you may be wise (B)in your latter days.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 19:18 Lit. to put him to death; a Jewish tradition on his crying